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face
USE
wall
faceted crystals
faceted rounded particles
factors
failure load (snow cover)
failure mechanism
USE
release mechanism
fall
fall-line
falling in temperatures
USE
decrease in temperature
far from ridge
fast ice
fast-ice boundary
fast-ice edge
fatally injured
Fc
USE
faceted crystals
FCsf
USE
near surface faceted particles
FCso
USE
solid faceted particles
FCxr
USE
rounding faceted particles
feathery snow
USE
wild snow
feeling for terrain
felt-like snow
fern frost
fibrillation (heart)
filling time (glacier)
fine grained snow
fine probing
fines
finger rafted ice
finger rafting
finite element method
fir
firing
firmness
USE
compactness
firn
firn basin
firn compaction
firn compaction profile
firn crust
USE
firn mirror
firn density
firn edge line
firn ice
firn limit
firn line
USE
firn limit
firn mirror
firn snow
firn-ice transition
firnification
firnspiegel
USE
sun crust
first part of the summer
first part of the winter
first-year ice
fissure (crevasse) formation
fixed (stationary) ice
USE
fast ice
fixed thermistor string
fjord
flange
flank
flat jack shear test
flaw
flaw leads
flaw polynya
flexible joint
floating ice
floating ice by its occurrences
floating ice motion processes
floating ice of land origin
floe
floeberg
floebit
flood water from glacier
flooded ice
flow density
flow direction of airmasses
flow height (avalanche)
flow line
flow relation (ice)
USE
ice flow relation
flow speed
flow till
flow-lines
flowing avalanche
fluffy snow
USE
wild snow
fluted moraines
fluted snow slope
flutes
fog
föhn
fold (glacier)
folded moraines
folds
foliation
foot of a rock face
foot of a slope
foot penetration
foothills
Forbes bands
USE
band ogives
force at boundary
USE
edge effect force
force budget
force of impact
force of propulsion
forest
forest clearing
forest ranger
USE
forester
forest warden
USE
forester
forester
form of the snow surface
formation of avalanches
formation of cornices
formation of fracture
formation of snow-slide
formation of snow-slip
USE
formation of snow-slide
forms of fast ice
forms of floating ice
foundation checking for building
USE
soil investigation for foundation
foundation on piles
USE
pile foundation
fountain
four-ski drag
USE
two-ski drag
four-ski plough
USE
two-ski drag
Fractional Snow Cover
fracture
fracture area
USE
starting area
fracture area margin
USE
fracture line
fracture depth
fracture layer
fracture length
fracture line
fracture load (snow cover)
USE
failure load (snow cover)
fracture of avalanche
fracture propagation
fracture starting from a line
fracture starting from a point
fracture width
fracture zone
fractured surface
fracturing
fragility
USE
brittleness
fragmentation shell
frazil ice
free of snow
USE
snowfree
free water
USE
liquid water content
free-standing wall
freezing
freezing calorimetry
freezing drizzle
USE
supercooled drizzle
freezing level
freezing mixture
freezing point
frequency
frequency of issue of avalanche bulletin
friction angle
USE
angle of friction
friction coefficient
friction energy
friction velocity
frictional sliding
friendly ice
frost
frost crack
frost shattering
USE
frost crack
frost smoke
frostbite
frostbite (freeze to death)
USE
hypothermia
frostbitten
frostheaving
frozen rain
full harness
full-depth avalanche
USE
ground avalanche
funicular railway
funicular regime
further avalanche
fuse
fusion and refreezing crust
USE
melt-freeze crust
fusion latent heat